Bioethics
SCOPUS (1987-2023)SCIE-ISI SSCI-ISI
1467-8519
0269-9702
Anh Quốc
Cơ quản chủ quản: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd , WILEY
Lĩnh vực:
Health PolicyHealth (social science)Philosophy
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‘Hitting you over the head’: Oncologists’ disclosure of prognosis to advanced cancer patientsThe disclosure of prognosis to terminally ill patients has emerged as a recent concern given greater demands for patient involvement in medical decision‐making in the United States. As part of the informed consent process, American physicians are legally and ethically obligated to provide information to such patients about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of all available treatment op... ...
Tập 17 Số 2 - Trang 142-168 - 2003
THE ETHICS OF UTERUS TRANSPLANTATIONABSTRACT Human uterus transplantation (UTx) is currently under investigation as a treatment for uterine infertility. Without a uterus transplant, the options available to women with uterine infertility are adoption or surrogacy; only the latter has the potential for a genetically related child. UTx will offer recipients the chance of having their own pregnancy. This... ...
Tập 27 Số 2 - Trang 65-73 - 2013
THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN MORAL CASE DELIBERATION: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND METHODOLOGYABSTRACT In clinical moral decision making, emotions often play an important role. However, many clinical ethicists are ignorant, suspicious or even critical of the role of emotions in making moral decisions and in reflecting on them. This raises practical and theoretical questions about the understanding and use of emotions in clinical ethics support services. This... ...
Tập 25 Số 7 - Trang 383-393 - 2011
Mitochondrial Replacement: Ethics and IdentityAbstract Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT s) have the potential to allow prospective parents who are at risk of passing on debilitating or even life‐threatening mitochondrial disorders to have healthy children to whom they are genetically related. Ethical concerns have however been raised about th... ...
Tập 29 Số 9 - Trang 631-638 - 2015
DEVELOPMENTS IN STEM CELL RESEARCH AND THERAPEUTIC CLONING: ISLAMIC ETHICAL POSITIONS, A REVIEWABSTRACT Stem cell research is very promising. The use of human embryos has been confronted with objections based on ethical and religious positions. The recent production of reprogrammed adult (induced pluripotent) cells does not – in the opinion of scientists – reduce the need to continue human embryonic stem cell research. So the debate continues. ...
Tập 26 Số 3 - Trang 128-135 - 2012
On the Alleged Right to Participate in High‐Risk ResearchAbstract Reigning regulatory frameworks for biomedical research impose on researchers and research ethics committees an obligation to protect research participants from risks that are unnecessary, disproportionate to potential research benefits, and non‐minimized. Where the research has no potential to produce results of direct benefit to the subjects and the subjec... ...
Tập 29 Số 7 - Trang 451-461 - 2015
Fleshing Out VulnerabilityAbstract In the literature on medical ethics, it is generally admitted that vulnerable persons or groups deserve special attention, care or protection. One can define vulnerable persons as those having a greater likelihood of being wronged – that is, of being denied adequate satisfaction of certain legitimate claims. The conjunction of these two points entails what ... ...
Tập 29 Số 2 - Trang 98-107 - 2015
Avoiding ‘selection’?—References to history in current German policy debates about non‐invasive prenatal testingAbstract This article investigates the role of historical references and arguments in the current policy debate on non‐invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in Germany. It analyses major documents and opinion statements, including the recent parliamentary debate (2019). The implementation of NIPT is accompanied by concerns and strong criticism, particularly in Germany. M... ...
Tập 35 Số 6 - Trang 518-527 - 2021